Earth is predicted to spin about 1.34 milliseconds faster than usual on July 22, 2025, making it one of the shortest days on record. If the latest data holds up, July 22 is likely to be the second-shortest day of 2025 with July 10 likely being the first with 1.36 milliseconds, once confirmed.
Scientists believe that around 4.5 billion years ago, a protoplanet called Theia collided with the Earth, sending debris into space that eventually formed the Moon. According to new research, the crash also likely left enormous chunks– even millions of times larger…
The Earth has been spinning on its axis faster than it has in five decades, scientists around the world have revealed. 2020 already saw some of the shortest days recorded in history, with 2021 predicted to be even shorter. "It is certainly correct that the…
Since Earth`s orbit is an ellipse, on July 5, 2013 our planet will be on the farthest end of the curve, at the most distant point from the Sun. That is called aphelion.
In Earth`s orbit the average distance from the Sun is roughly 150 million kilometers, but at
The Earth never sleeps. The night is nowhere near as dark as most of us think. In fact, Earth is never really dark; it twinkles with lights from humans and nature. Away from human settlements, light still shines – wildfires and volcanoes rage, oil and gas wells burn
FACTS! One in five people live in extreme poverty One in seven people are undernourished One in seven people don’t have water to meet their basic needs One in six people live without electricity or with only erratic accessThere is only one Earth. Re-think
Between 75 and 80% of all volcanic activity on Earth takes place at deep-sea, mid-ocean ridges. Most of these volcanoes produce effusive lava flows rather than explosive eruptions, both because the levels of magmatic gas (which fuel the explosions and are made up of…
